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Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

easterncalculus wrote: post #228
edoceo wrote: post #143

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One has to actively try to use Old. So, usage is being reduced by attrition (but attributed to design success). So, apathy looks like successful KPIs. New UI sucks. Forgets settings, frequent load errors (which blank out an already loaded content) and hit-boxes for clickable items are small/overlap which increases page hits (cause you nav to the wrong page). It smacks of a hasty rewrite in $HOTFRAMEWORK. I use reddit…

Thankfully there are some browser extensions to redirect automatically, provided you're comfortable using them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

neither of these work with my browsers.

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Post by jack2222 »

dvt wrote: post #243
cblconfederate wrote: post #217

Reddit now feels like newsgroups after they were infested with spam. Little good content , hidden in corners under piles of spam. Instead of spam, they have politics though. It looks like a model on the verge of collapse.

I agree that it seems like it's ripe for disruption. Time for another Digg (which was what reddit was supposed to be) -- maybe with a mobile-first user experience (reddit is trash on a phone).

rather than digg, I'd like to see another stumbleupon

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Post by edoceo »

ihuman wrote: post #265
easterncalculus wrote: post #228

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Thankfully there are some browser extensions to redirect automatically, provided you're comfortable using them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

If you have an account, you can just flip a switch in the settings that disables the new UI.

I just signed in, I'm in the new UI, there is nothing in my settings to turn it off.

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Post by lucb1e »

Why publish this number now? Makes me think they're looking for buyers or to go public. Which would be the easiest way to make the owners, who have the only say about selling it, very rich indeed compared to trying to show nice ads to a critical audience.

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Post by chillwaves »

brink wrote: post #241
chillwaves wrote: post #225

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No one has a right to a private platform. Facebook banned QAnon, so did Youtube. They can, frankly, fuck off. Public good is a consideration.

This is how I'm afraid free speech dies. The internet becomes privatized, and therefore - free from those pesky free speech laws.

Really? Because there is site moderation on hacker news too. I am sure if you breach them enough, you will find yourself unwelcome.

QAnon is free to start their own website and say whatever loony shit they want.

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Post by edoceo »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #268
ihuman wrote: post #265

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If you have an account, you can just flip a switch in the settings that disables the new UI.

yeah except "just" doing this doesn't work always.

Exactly!

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Post by Kaze404 »

dvt wrote: post #254
Kaze404 wrote: post #242

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Politics is fine. But in general Reddit has so little content actually worth anyone's time that it's crazy to me how people spend so much time on it. Not to mention YouTube channels that get millions of views where they just read AskReddit threads with the same jokes those people make literally every single thread.

> Politics is fine. Politics is fine if it's discussed like it is on HN†: level-headed arguments are debated, discussed, and, if a consensus isn't reached, we can agree to disagree. Reddit is polluted by absolute political drivel, except for a very small subset of subs. Low-effort "Trump is bad" posts that get massively upvoted just gets old after a while, especially when you see it every single day . † HN has been h…

I'm personally not a fan of that kind of content either, but I like that politics is mainstream enough now that it exists. Politics discussion (however shallow) shouldn't be exclusive to certain demographics in my opinion.

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Post by _s4uu »

I banned the reddit URL from my laptop so i cant go on it anymore. The extreme left wing bent is nuts, I had to go to 4chan unfortunately. Free speech used to be an ideal for the internet, now you can only get it on a few websites which is too bad. Also a lot of botting and astroturfing from foreign nations and those looking to curry support. On the business side, I can see reddit slowly becoming a new quora.

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Post by raunakdag »

verroq wrote: post #81
ardy42 wrote: post #76

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> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us who like the old interface aren't large in number. Do people actually prefer the new interface [on its merits], or do they just use it because it's the default?

Zoomers find it relatable since it’s another facebook/instagram/twitter feed.

Downed but it’s true. Much easier to see the same recycled memes in a row if it’s optimized for scrolling through images over discussion

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Post by ourlordcaffeine »

dirtyid wrote: post #264
ourlordcaffeine wrote: post #253

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>But they do have better rhetoric and are more invested in the debate For anyone unfamiliar with r/sino: They believe the Tienanmen Square massacre was justified They believe the Uighur concentration camps are justified They believe an invasion of Taiwan is righteous, and there is generally a lot of extreme vitriol directed at Taiwan and the Taiwanese They believe in and spread a lot of misinformation concerning the…

Well duh, that's me. I'm pro-CCP on policies I agree with and anti-CCP on policies I don't. You know... the kind of nuance reasonable people reserve for their own governments, but can't seem to generalize outside their tribe. Sino's an unfortunate echochamber because 50k pro-China voices can't withstand brigading of vastly numerous anti-China voices. It's understandable to adopt siege mentality, plenty of other place…

You agree with some pretty awful things then. And any reasonable person would have a problem with the things listed.
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